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How We Ranked the Brokers (2017)

A breakdown of how Barron’s ranked online brokers for 2017

March 18, 2017

Trading Technology: This category represents the overall workflow for placing an order as well as the order-routing technology.

We evaluated the quality of the data available prior to placing an order with an emphasis on streaming real-time data. A real-time quote that is displayed without any additional user input (such as typing the symbol into a separate box or hitting a “Quote” button) is expected; if the trader has to make a duplicate entry of the ticker symbol to get a quote, the broker had a fraction of a point...